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Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Ephemera for Lunch #23: Hakone Kanko Hotel

On the heels of yesterday's Hotel Minaguchi-Ya luggage tag, here is another piece of hotel ephemera from my great-grandmother's trip to Japan in the 1960s.

This one is for the Hakone Kanko Hotel in Hakone National Park.1 Hakone is a beautiful town that thrives primarily on its tourist and hot-springs industries. This time of year, tourists might travel there to see the Miscanthus sinensis (pictured at right) in its autumn bloom.2

I cannot determine whether the Hakone Kanko Hotel is still in existence.3 I might need some assistance from someone in Papergreat's Tokyo Bureau on that matter. But I was able to discover these tidbits...

Its offerings, according to an old advertisement I found on Flickr, included "new modern comfortably furnished rooms each with a scenic view," "large new swimming pool," and "excellent Western and Japanese food which makes you wish for second helpings."

In October 1986, the hotel hosted "Microclusters: Proceedings of the First NEC Symposium on Fundamental Approaches to New Material Phases."4

BONUS

Here's one more of my great-grandmother's luggage stickers, from a different hotel in Hakone...

Footnotes1. Hakone National Park is officially known as Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park.
2. In North America, however, Miscanthus sinensis is considered an invasive species.
3. I did, however, discover something called the Funspace Ashinoko Camp Mura Lake-Side Villa.
4. At the Microclusters symposium, "about 40 partic­ipants stayed together at the symposium sites during this period. They enjoyed intense and wide-ranging discussions in a conference room facing Mt. Fuji and the beautiful lake Ashinoko extending from the foot of the slope in the old crater." There's a whole eBook about it for just $69.99.

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